"ENH" == Edward Ned Harvey <[email protected]> I usually use Firewire, especially when both machines have Firewire 800 ports (also works well for Time Machine backups, which you won't have for a 10.4 machine), but
ENH> You could go through the network. If you go
ENH> under System Preferences, and Sharing... Then you can
ENH> enable either AFP, Samba, or SSH (which implies SFTP).
You can just use any standard Ethernet cable to connect both
machines and create a network connection; Mac OS X is smart enough
to fake the crossover so it just works. If you're running the
migration tools on both sides, you don't have to bother with file
sharing at all.
You may or may not want to copy your applications, especially if
you have apps that installs bits all over the disk (e.g., Maple,
MATLAB, Microsoft Office, and a surprising number of others,
including text editors with command-line interfaces). With my new
machine, I didn't migrate apps, used my existing deployment tools
to install our standard app set, then copied the apps from the old
machine into a different directory on the new machine, and have
been moving the ones I actually missed over. It's a nice way to
get a clean start.
Claire
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Claire M. Connelly [email protected]
System Administrator, Dept. of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College
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